Dismantling Devotion by Daylight Dies is rated 98% with 6 reviews...though that's not that many.

I intend to write a review for that album in the high 90s as well; such a killer album.

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The ones in yellow to me are the ones pretty much on the brim of highest rated albums on the archives. Elvenefris, to me, needs one more review to claim the top spot; 14 is just one low, but 15 I'll count it right in. Still quite the feat staying alive at 97%.

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I listened to the Lykathea Aflame album and it definitely doesn't deserve that rating. Neither do Dream Theater, Death, Arsis, Primordial and fucking Ahab.

Bathory, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Judas Priest and Terrorizer are fine with me. I don't think most of those deserve as high a rating as they have, but definitely all at least above 80%. The beginning of "Pace Till Death" keeps BFD from deserving a rating above 90%.

All Dream Theater is fucking terrible. Not just that it's terrible music, but it's also terrible for putting me off prog metal for over a decade. Only since fairly recently am I beginning to realize that there are prog metal that aren't as fucking talentless and homoerotic as Dream Theater is, and I'm fucking mad at them for making me think the whole genre is as useless as they are. Fuck them, all their shit, every single note they played deserves no more than 0%.

I like that song more than "Take The Time;" the solo wasn't bad - relaxing.

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Yesterday was the birthday of school pal and I met the chick of my sigh (I've talked about here before, the she-wolf I use to be inlove with)... Maaan she was using a mini-skirt too damn insane... Dude you could saw her entire soul every time she sit...

It should, though I was just looking back on those mentioned in the thread and putting them all on one page.

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Yesterday was the birthday of school pal and I met the chick of my sigh (I've talked about here before, the she-wolf I use to be inlove with)... Maaan she was using a mini-skirt too damn insane... Dude you could saw her entire soul every time she sit...

Gorguts doesn't have too many reviews on any of their albums, but if there was a band whose albums collectively had the most highest (however you phrase it) reviews, Gorguts would def be in the running. The new one might solidify them some more.

Take the Time is excellent, drop all that sappy bullshit like Surrounded and things would start to look up.

Finally someone who agres with me; that horrid poppy abortion is easily the worst moment of the album (yes, I'm fine with Another Day); the fact that they ripped off Queen's Father to Son on its intro makes my stomach churn even more.

Edit: Add to that the fact I just wasted my 2000th post discussing its shittiness. God. Fucking. Damn it.

All Dream Theater is fucking terrible. Not just that it's terrible music, but it's also terrible for putting me off prog metal for over a decade. Only since fairly recently am I beginning to realize that there are prog metal that aren't as fucking talentless and homoerotic as Dream Theater is, and I'm fucking mad at them for making me think the whole genre is as useless as they are. Fuck them, all their shit, every single note they played deserves no more than 0%.

All Dream Theater is fucking terrible. Not just that it's terrible music, but it's also terrible for putting me off prog metal for over a decade. Only since fairly recently am I beginning to realize that there are prog metal that aren't as fucking talentless and homoerotic as Dream Theater is, and I'm fucking mad at them for making me think the whole genre is as useless as they are. Fuck them, all their shit, every single note they played deserves no more than 0%.

All Dream Theater is fucking terrible. Not just that it's terrible music, but it's also terrible for putting me off prog metal for over a decade. Only since fairly recently am I beginning to realize that there are prog metal that aren't as fucking talentless and homoerotic as Dream Theater is, and I'm fucking mad at them for making me think the whole genre is as useless as they are. Fuck them, all their shit, every single note they played deserves no more than 0%.

And this my friends is what we call "lunar commercial psychosis". It's when an individual finds their opinion challenged by what they are hearing. Their mind begins to self destruct with the thought they could be wrong, and the music is then shut off.

In fairness it is by far Dream Theater's best album. I wouldn't rate so highly, though. Maybe an 85%-90%, but I haven't listened to it in a while.

Yeah, somewhere around 85 is an appropriate rating for it. The only DT album deserving of an over 90 is Images and Words, although it would have been even better if they had ditched Another Day.

Fixed. I don't know how any self respecting person can listen to the sax solo in Another Day and say 'yeah that's cool, I like this'. Worst thing ever.

I like that song and "Suffocated" as well. Good stuff.

That song is awesome what's wrong with you? The sax solo is brilliant and the fact you can dislike it that much is quite humorous. Actually , I&W is overall completely good, but Awake tops it. Personally, I think the love the album gets is completely deserved considering it is brilliant. It seems like most people here dislike DT because they can be sappy or poppy at times but I don't limit myself that way.

I'm going to ban you (and any dupes you may create) permanently the next time I see you lean on any variation of the "doesn't like it just because it's popular" crutch, Whackyoozero--in any situation or context, an hour from now or a year from now. For a person who so clearly views Open-Mindedness (TM) as a self-evident religious mandate, you do a remarkably poor job of living by its essential prelates.

If the quality of forum discourse is going to improve, it is going to require that users new and old develop a modicum of dialectic charity when speaking to one another, especially where disagreements of principle are concerned.

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They influenced MOST of the metal bands of our days, and they are not part of this site? This is unacceptable!!!I would like to know why is that???Because they are not considered metal? This is not fare!!!

Dismantling Devotion by Daylight Dies is rated 98% with 6 reviews...though that's not that many.

Impressive, although Borknagar's The Olden Domain hasn't been mentioned yet and it holds the same average but with one more review.

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I listened to the Lykathea Aflame album and it definitely doesn't deserve that rating. Neither do Dream Theater, Death, Arsis, Primordial and fucking Ahab.

Bathory, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Judas Priest and Terrorizer are fine with me. I don't think most of those deserve as high a rating as they have, but definitely all at least above 80%. The beginning of "Pace Till Death" keeps BFD from deserving a rating above 90%.

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All Dream Theater is fucking terrible. Not just that it's terrible music, but it's also terrible for putting me off prog metal for over a decade. Only since fairly recently am I beginning to realize that there are prog metal that aren't as fucking talentless and homoerotic as Dream Theater is, and I'm fucking mad at them for making me think the whole genre is as useless as they are. Fuck them, all their shit, every single note they played deserves no more than 0%.

Fates Warning's The Spectre Within has 6 reviews with an average of 98%.
Blind Guardian's Somewhere Far Beyond has 16 reviews with an average of 94%.
Helloween's Gambling with the Devil has 12 reviews with an average of 93%.
Queensryche's s/t has 10 reviews with an average of 92%.

on a site, and forum which i cannot mention the name of, he rec's the album in his OP pretty much every post he makes, and talks about them on IRC all the time, i asked him if anything is higher rated.

my contribution to the thread : priest's sad wings and stained class were both 96% last i checked with 10+reviews each.

btw does anyone else think itd be awesome if the site had a feature to sort reviews by sub genre, and then by highest rating, and then be able to say (min amount of reviews = X)

so look up black metal albums sorted by highest review, that need a min of 5 reviews.

I don't really understand the new negative review of Elvenefris. I mean, I like the album, but it seems like many of the logical criticisms that could be made of it (a reliance on major key melodies, the near constant switching between acoustic guitar-only passages and blasting brutal death, a somewhat monodimensional vocal performance) are absent in favor of stuff that really doesn't make much sense.

I don't really understand the new negative review of Elvenefris. I mean, I like the album, but it seems like many of the logical criticisms that could be made of it (a reliance on major key melodies, the near constant switching between acoustic guitar-only passages and blasting brutal death, a somewhat monodimensional vocal performance) are absent in favor of stuff that really doesn't make much sense.

I know, it seemed a bit lacking in variety of criticism. He didn't even touch on the worst part of the album: the production.

Same about the production - the only two things I don't like about the album are the drums (hate hollow snares so much) and the lack of real identity with the songs. With the middle eastern tunes, though, I guess the drums do kind of fit (in a tribal sense).

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